They're worth about $10 billion right now as of the close of trading. In Sony's last quarterly report they were sitting on $13 billion in cash and $10 billion in marketable securities so they could make the purchase if they wanted to, the question is are they worth $10 billion? I'd say yes if Sony sees Playstation as being their only real path into the future given struggling smart phone sales, and how other divisions are stagnating or are simply not very competitive.
Given it is Microsoft I would assume that is all but certain. I’m sure it will still have a single player campaign but the online experience will be a service like everything else these days.
Yes, I've noticed all the Microsoft fluff pieces over the last few months.
If this is true why the fuck would they do this? No one seriously expects Sony to censor AAA multiplatform games that aren't censored on PC and Xbox One, not even the most annoying of the social justice crowd. This is beyond idiotic and is an act of capitulation to a demand that isn't even being made.
I'm pretty impressed by the improvements they've been able to make due to the delay. Looking forward to this.
I've been using Xperia phones for years so I often forget that remote play isn't available on all phones.
Glad to hear it, I preordered this a long time ago in Amazon.
The bigger issue was it didn't hold 30fps very well on the regular PS4. It was better on the Pro at 1080p with a more consistent framerate but so far the Dragon Engine hasn't been very impressive in Yakuza 6 / Kiwami 2. If how it looked and ran on the Pro was how it was on the base system, it wouldn't be a bad showing. It's especially unimpressive when looking at titles like Spider-Man and God of War on base / Pro systems.
I actually was not thrilled by the first couple of trailers for the game but some of the more recent stuff has made me think it'll be a solid release. I would not be surprised to see this score in the 80s on metacritic which would be plenty good for Bend's first major console release in a long time.
I'd rather play Metro Exodus at 60fps than 20-30fps.
If the game is 25-30 hours this isn't a big deal.
Glad I never bothered investing time in it, I figured Rockstar would do the same shit they did with GTA Online to try and force people to buy currency.
I'm sure Xbox One X owners will be thrilled to know their new $500 console has been replaced only 2 years after launch.
Why would we expect them to say anything else?
This decision is just going to set back RTX adoption further.
That's actually not accurate. The panels are 120Hz, they can only accept 60Hz. (even this is changing though, many tvs already will do 1080p at 120Hz) This is still an advantage though as 24Hz divides evenly into 120Hz, making Blu-rays look better as there is no need to utilize 3:2 pull down, each of the 24 frames can simply be displayed 5x. A 60Hz signal also works fine as interpolation can be disabled so each frame is just displayed 2x. 120Hz has real benefits over 60Hz and it has nothi...
The original demo probably was not running on a server over the internet but a networked machine (or worse the machine running the demo) with a lot more processing power than would be feasible for a commercial game.
Exclusives like Crackdown 3, Sea of Thieves, and State of Decay 2?
How much this matters depends on how good the PS5 version of PSVR is, as there will definitely be a new headset released with the new machine. If they manage to go full wireless and improve the image quality and a bunch of other things, not having something similar could actually be a big deal.
Prior to their Q3 2018 results Sony's previous 2 quarters were record highs for them. A purchase of this isn't Sony "losing 10 billion" it's them acquiring assets theoretically worth 10 billion. Not the same thing at all because we know for sure a large part of it will generate revenue, the question is whether it generates enough revenue to justify spending $10 billion. If it would guarantee Playstation is around and dominant 20 years from now such a purchase might be wa...